Used-needle receiver for talking-machines.



A. A. HUSEBY.

' USED NEEDLE RECEIVER FOR TALKING MACHINES.

Patented 1111y21,1918.

ALBERT A. HUSEBY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

USED-NEEDLE RECEIVER FOR TALKING-MACHINES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 21, 1918.

Application iled July 5, 1917. Serial No. 178,659.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT A. HUsnBY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chi cago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Used-Needle Receivers for Talking-Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to receivers for the used needles of talking machines. In the manufacture of talking machines it is now the general practice to provide on or in the top wall of the cabinet, at one side of the turn-table or'record support, one or more cups or pockets to contain new needles, and also a similar cup or pocket to hold the used or spent needles. Since a used needle is nowise different in appearance to the naked eye from a new needle, used needles are not infrequently picked up and used by mistake for new needles, especially by those unfamiliar with the machine. Moreover, these receptacles are of quite limited capacity, and require to be frequently emptied.

It is the purpose or object of the present invention to provide, in a cabinet talking machine, an improved receiver for the used or spent needles that shall obviate the objections above noted, and shall so dispose of the used needles that they will not only be out of sight, but will also be out of reach so that they cannot be re-used by mistake for new needles, and that will accomplish these desirable results with the expenditure of no more time, trouble, or effort on the part of the user than is now required to deposit them in the usual receiving cup or holder. To these ends my inventionnconsists in the novel used needle receiver incorporated in a cabinet talking machine as hereinafter described and definitely pointed out in the claims.

My invention, its manner of use, and the advantages attending the same will all be readily understood by those familiar with talking machines from the subjoined description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification, wherein- Figure 1 is a top plan view, with the cover removed, of a cabinet talking machine in which my present invention is embodied;

Fig. 2 is a vertical section, substantially in the plane of the needle delivery chute.

Referring to the drawing, 5 designates the main body, 6 the horizontal top wall, and 7 the hinged lid or cover of a talking machine cabinet of a well known standard form. Since the present invention is not concerned with the sound reproducing mechanism contained within the cabinet, this mechanism need not be herein described.

In the upper side of the' top wall 6 is formed a socket 8, through the bottom wall of which extends the upper end of a downwardly inclined metal tube 9. The bottom wall of the socket is preferably surfaced with a thin metal disk 10, and the tube is secured in place by an annular flange 9 on its upper end overlying the disk 10. The lower end of the tube 9 is supported by a metal clip 11 that may be secured to a side wall of the body 5, and this lower end of the tube directly overhangs the open upper end of a box 12, preferably of considerable size, that, in the present instance. is secured to an interior transverse wall 13 of the body. Obviously this box may be otherwise secured, or may simply rest upon any suitable support within the cabinet, if preferred.

Fitted within the socket 8 is a funnel 14 consisting, in the present instance, of a wooden block or disk of considerable thickness having a flared hole 14 formed therethrough, the lower end of said hole registering and communicating with the upper end of the tube 9.

From the foregoing it will readily be seen that the funnel 14 and tube 9 together constitute a chute into which used needles may be dropped and through which they will slide by gravity and fall into the box or receptacle 12 in which latter they may accumulate until the box is full.

It will readily be seen that by the use of the device hereinabove described and shown in the drawing the needles, as fast as they are used, are so disposed of that they are both out of sight and out of reach and cannot be re-used by mistake for new needles. The box 12 is preferably of such size as to require emptying only at very long intervals; and, where each needle is used but once, as is the most approved practice, the contents of the box 12 afford a ready means for ascertaining the extent to which the machine has been used, that is, the number of records it has played, up to the time of emptying the box 12. At 15 and 16.1 have indicated a pair of cups forming receptacles for new needles (hard and soft) which, in practice, are also located on or in the upper side of the top wall 6; but the presence or absence of these receptacles is, of course, immaterial to the present invention.

Manifestly the specific loca-tion and arrangement of the coperating parts of my improved needle receiver may be modiiied to suit different constructions of cabinets Without involving any departure from the principle involved or sacrificing any of the advantages inherent therein.

I claim:

1.y In `a talking machine, the combination with a cabinet having a top wall formed with a socket in its upper side, of a used needle receiver comprising a box located within the cabinet below said top wall, a tube at its upper end extending through and secured in the bottom Wall of said socket and at its lower end overhanging said box, and a removable funnel seated in said socket and registering at its lower end with the upper end of said tube.

2. In a talking machine, the combination with a cabinet having a top wall formed with a socket in its upper side having an apertured bottom wall, of a depending de- Copies of thuis patent may be obtained for live cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, f

livery tube for used needles extending through the aperture of said bottom wall and formed at its upper end with an annular supportinglip or ange, a box located rWithin said cabinet beneath the lower or discharge end of said tube, and a removable block fitting and filling said socket and formed with a funnel-shaped passage registering` with the upper end of said tube.

3. In a talking machine, the combination with a Cabinet having a top wall formed with a socket in its upper side having a centrally apertured bottom Wall, of a lining disk for said bot-toni wall formed with an aperture registering'v with the aperture' of the latter, a depending Vdelivery tube for used needles extending through said apertures and formed at its upper end with an annular supporting lip. or flange overlying and resting on said lining disk, a box -located in 4said cabinet beneath the lower or discharge end of said tube, and a remov able block fitting and filling said socket and formed with a funnel-shaped passage registering with the upper end of said tube.

ALBERT A. HUSEBY.

Washington, D. C. 

